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Airing Pain #147: Person-Centred Care (Transcript)

December 04 , 2024
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Download PDF Listen now First broadcast: 04 December 2024 This edition of Airing Pain focuses on person-centred care. Person-centred care is based on the individual rather than on a generic group of patients.   The edition is presented and produced by Paul Evans. The interviews were recorded at the British Pain ...

Airing Pain #147: Person-Centred Care

December 04 , 2024
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This episode of Airing Pain focuses on person-centred care. Person-centred care is based on the individual rather than on a generic group of patients.   In this episode:  Vicky Sandy-Davis, Lead Nurse of Independent Health and Social Care, talks about the importance of recognizing the value of person-centred care, specifically ...

Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBS & IBD)

October 09 , 2024
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This edition of Airing Pain focuses on two conditions affecting the gut: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Both affect the digestive system, and both cause pain.  In this episode we learn about what separates these outwardly similar sounding conditions, how they are diagnosed, and ...

Airing Pain 146: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBS & IBD) (Transcript)

October 09 , 2024
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Download PDF Listen now First broadcast: 09 October 2024 This edition of Airing Pain focuses on two conditions affecting the gut: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The edition is presented and produced by Paul Evans. The interviews were recorded at the British Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting, 2024.  Edition ...

Paul Evans receives Honorary Membership to BPS

September 10 , 2024
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Paul Evans, Airing Pain Host, receives his Honorary Membership to the BPS from Heather Wallace, Pain Concern's CEO Paul Evans, Airing Pain Host, Receives Honorary Memberhip to the BPS (British Pain Society) We are proud to announce that Paul Evans, host of Pain Concern’s Airing Pain podcast, has been ...

Airing Pain 145: Rethinking Pain: Pain Management in the Community

August 14 , 2024
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This edition of Airing Pain centres on rethinking the traditional clinician-patient relationship in pain management and exploring alternative approaches to bringing pain management back into the community.   Dr Barbara Phipps, GP and Lifestyle Medicine expert, discusses the development and benefits of group consultations for pain management.  Dr Jackie ...

Airing Pain 144 Dilemmas in Pain Research 

June 12 , 2024
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This edition of Airing Pain focuses on the challenges that researchers must overcome when researching pain and developing new treatment approaches. Many questions remain unanswered in the field of pain research. For example we might know that a treatment works for some people living with pain, but ...

Airing Pain 143: Personalised Medicine and Empowered Pain Relief

April 10 , 2024
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This edition of Airing Pain focuses on the treatment of pain, the importance of catering treatment to a person’s individual genetic makeup, and why addressing the psychological dimensions of pain is crucial in treating it effectively. The process of finding a medication or treatment that works for a ...

Airing Pain 142 – a listener’s review

March 28 , 2024
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Dale Rockell listens to, and reviews, edition 142 of Airing Pain: Societal Inequalities and Disparities in Pain Management. Dale Rockell is a photographer, blogger and Airing Pain listener who lives with fibromyalgia. As someone living with Fibromyalgia, I have an active interest in learning to live better ...

Airing Pain 141: Living with Childhood and Young Adult Cancer

December 20 , 2023
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This edition of Airing Pain sheds light on the unique challenges of living with cancer as a child or young adult, and the later impacts of the cancer treatment they underwent during the critical formative years. Airing Pain speaks to experts on the longitudinal impacts of cancer ...

Airing Pain 138: Dance, Chronic Pain and Self-Compassion

August 30 , 2023
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Hear interviews with Edinburgh Festival Fringe performers who have chronic pain, as well as researchers exploring dance and self-compassion.

Airing Pain 135: Pain Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic

February 22 , 2023
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This edition of Airing Pain examines the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the relationship between patient and healthcare professional.  At the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, the face-to-face consultations between doctors and patients was one of the first casualties. With restrictions relaxed, have ...